Free Linux Foundation OTCA Exam Questions

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Question 1

What is the primary purpose of Span Links in OpenTelemetry?

A : To establish a hierarchical parent-child relationship between spans.

B : To set the priority levels for spans.

C : To associate multiple spans that are causally related but do not have a direct parent-child relationship.

D : To define the timestamps for when a span starts and ends.

Answer: C

Question 2

Your distributed application emits logs, traces, and metrics using various legacy libraries. You want to achieve a unified observability pipeline without altering existing log formats. Which OpenTelemetry component should you configure to map and process these diverse telemetry signals uniformly?

A : Implement the OpenTelemetry API directly in each service.

B : Configure the OpenTelemetry Collector to ingest and map the different telemetry signals.

C : Use the OpenTelemetry SDK to replace all legacy libraries.

D : Set up separate backends for logs, traces, and metrics without using OpenTelemetry.

Answer: B

Question 3

Your application processes incoming requests in batches, where each batch operation is initiated by multiple spans representing individual items. How should you represent the relationship between the batch operation span and the individual item spans in OpenTelemetry?

A : Set each item span as a child of the batch operation span using the parent field.

B : Use Span Links to associate the batch operation span with each individual item span.

C : Use separate traces for the batch operation and individual item spans without linking them.

D : Merge all individual item spans into the batch operation span.

Answer: B

Question 4

Which of the following is a key limitation of traditional logging systems in distributed environments?

A : They often lack robust correlation mechanisms with traces and metrics.

B : They natively support distributed tracing information.

C : They have standardized context propagation across services.

D : They provide real-time log analysis capabilities.

Answer: A

Question 5

You have a single receiver configured in your OpenTelemetry Collector that needs to send telemetry data to two separate trace pipelines. How can you achieve this configuration?

A : Define two separate receiver instances with different names.

B : Use a processor to duplicate the telemetry data to multiple pipelines.

C : List the same receiver under both pipeline configurations in the service.pipelines section.

D : Configure the receiver to export to multiple exporters within a single pipeline.

Answer: C

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